Happy Holidays!

Keeping with my theme of not having enough time in day to do anything, I thought I would share the picture I used for our Christmas card. That never got sent out - go figure.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

I'M BACK -- AND BREAKFAST WITH SANTA!

I'm back! Sort of....

I haven't been blogging, and here is the reason why. Life has been as crazy as ever with school, getting Ava to and from dance 5 days a week [more on that to come], getting Lucas to and from hockey 3 days a week, keeping up with housework, laundry, and all the other day to day "to-do's." Not to mention Christmas is a week away - which means I have had a house to decorate, holiday parties to host, holiday parties to go to, gifts to buy, gifts to wrap -- you get the idea. It has been busy 'round here.

Another reason - because I really do feel the need to find excuses for not posting for months on end - is that my camera has been broken. And if I don't have pictures to go along with my posts, it just doesn't seem worth writing to me....There is something about having a picture to go along with my words. Anyway - the Mr. claims he has fixed it, but I don't believe it for one darn minute. He tinkered with it and managed to get the flash working again, but it still isn't taking good pictures. I am thinking it is just done for and that I need to come to the realization that my $700 camera is now a piece o' crap. But for now, I am going to just use it, post my words with crappy pictures to go right along with them.

So, crazy life + broken camera = severe lack of posts as of late.

But I am getting back to it today with some not-so-wonderful-in-quality-but-chalk-full-of-sweet-memories pictures from our Breakfast with Santa.

Daddy and Nathan getting ready to eat breakfast...

Checking out Santa from a distance....

The boys, all full of fake smiles to show their excitement that my camera is now in working order again [sort of.]

Nathan oh so happy to be stuffing his face full of syrupy filled french toast sticks. This kid has a serious love for eating.

Miss Liv with her very best friend in the whole wide world - her cousin Lucia.

They love each other so much. It most certainly is the cutest darn thing to see these to girls hugging, whispering secrets and giggling when they are together.

They had quite an extensive chat with Santa about what they wanted...

So did the boys....

Nathan? Notsomuch. In fact, he was incredibly scared of Santa. So scared he screamed, cried and kicked his legs the entire minute he was on his lap.

Liv couldn't stop hugging him - most likely trying to butter him up for her insanely long list. The one that includes pretty much every single toy ad she has ever seen on T.V. over the past month.

Nathan steered clear of Santa for the rest of the morning, and proceeded to walk around with his delicious, yet very messy blue candy cane while waving to all the other people there to see that scary, scary man they call Santa.

One final picture with the Santa before leaving. Nathan, of course, was shaking in his boots when Santa approached, so we didn't force him to sit in on the picture. Ava was at dance class and really wasn't missing anything as she "so knows he isn't real anyway." [Her words.]

One last wave to Santa as he heads back to the North Pole to get ready to deliver all those presents!